Cool ways you and your family can enjoy the Fab Four even more
The Beatles’ timeless tunes are good for everyone, so introduce your kids to the Beatles and they’ll be hooked for life. We’ve come up with such a crazy-exhaustive list of fun things for your Beatles-loving family to enjoy, it’ll keep you busy eight days a week.
The Beatles Rarity has done a fantastic job collecting clips from the Beatles’ animated TV series. Follow the mop-topped heart breakers as they gallivant around London and tour around the world to a soundtrack of Beatles songs. Your kids will be imitating the accents after the first few minutes.
Dadrockers + classic cartoons? Makes a certain amount of sense
The video for Wilco’s new song, “Dawned on Me” features some very familiar-looking characters: Popeye, Olive Oyl and Bluto. Apparently this is the second time Wilco and the famous sailor man have teamed up, as a comic last Sunday revealed that the S.S. Wilco carries Wilco brand spinach.
What do you think? Are Jeff Tweedy and co. suited to this black and white comic styling? Are there other rock band-comic strip characters that need to be paired up?
Little Island Comics (742 Bathurst St.) is North America’s first kids comic book store, right in Toronto’s Annex! The shop just opened on September 6th, but their little space has quickly become a bubbling cauldron of quirky ideas. Aside from an extensive graphic novel selection – ranging from kids versions of traditional superhero books, manga, old school Gold Key Comics, and graphic adaptations of classic books, Little Island Comics will be hosting lots of family friendly events.
This month, Little Island is a vital stop for the Halloween enthusiast. Stop by to grab a bundle of trick or treat comics, attend a workshop on how to make spooky comics hosted by Tory Woolcott, or bring in your costumed kids on the 29th – 31st for some free comics!Read more...
Debuting on the newspaper comic strip circuit in 1941, crime-fighting, catsuit-wearing Miss Fury has the honour of being the first female superhero. She was followed by Wonder Woman six months later, and since then, superheroines from Catwoman to Aquagirl have made their marks in the world of comics as well. Trina Robbins, who edited the collection of Miss Fury reprints, discusses the role of women in comics, and that got us thinking about strong, smart female characters in general. And reminded us how anticipatory we are for Brave. (You’ve watched the awesome Brave trailer, right?)
Here are some of our favourites:
1. The Unprincessy Princess
Elizabeth from The Paper Bag Princess by Robert Munsch (1980)
Sweet Potato Chronicles features recipes that even the avowed non-cooks at Bunch HQ want to make. The pumpkin-gingerbread pancakes are no exception.
You’ll need:
2 cups whole wheat pastry flour
3 tablespoons brown sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground ginger
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cups 1% milk
1 cup pumpkin puree
1 egg
2 tablespoons vinegar
2 tablespoons sunflower oil
Mix all the wet ingredients together first, then mix the dry ingredients in a separate bowl. Stir the dry mix into the wet mix. For each pancake, pour 1/4 cup of batter onto a lightly buttered pan over medium heat.
Want to give to the Salvation Army’s iconic Red Kettle but you had no cash on hand? There’s an app for that. Mashable, your source for all things social media, has rounded up five creative social good campaigns. The Choose Haiti bracelets look pretty neat.
The Hipster Mom feels the most at home in the action figure and model car department when she makes a trip to the Toys R Us. Yesterday she wrote about her first venture into the aisles of the baby dolls.
Jonathan Liu over at Geek Dad has shared some kid-friendly comics by artist James Kochalka. Kid-friendly or not, a comic wherein the artist’s cat stars as the hero Dragon Puncher and the artist himself the aforementioned dragon? Awesome.
Good bacteria: it’s not just for yogurt-lovers anymore. The CBC reports that probiotics may help with illnesses in children. An otherwise healthy child with a viral infection could see the duration of his symptoms shorten.
